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cord-267491-3ry0gguh	Huntington-Klein, Nick	Semester Course Load and Student Performance	2020-10-18		.txt	text/plain	11571	568	54	Using longitudinal data from a regional four-year university with a high average time-to-degree, we find no evidence that high course loads have a negative impact on student grades, even for students at the low end of the performance distribution. Increased time-to-degree from post-secondary institutions in the United States has taken a prominent position along with low completion rates, access, affordability, and mounting student debt as a major public-policy concern in higher education. We examine the institutional context and find that a lot of variation in course load is driven by exogenous registration bottlenecks, we control for dynamic academic pressures, we use a time-varying simulated omitted predictor to calculate Rosenbaum (2002) -like bounds for our estimate, and we examine coefficient stability using the methods in Oster (2019) and Cinelli & Hazlett (2020) .	./cache/cord-267491-3ry0gguh.txt	./txt/cord-267491-3ry0gguh.txt